A kiss can make you feel everything, or it can make you feel nothing. Therefore, a common purpose of the kiss is helping determine your attraction to someone. A kiss can make or break your relationship: it is the separator between friend and lover.

It could be argued that a kiss is just as intimate as sex, and makes just as much of an impact. I remember certain kisses more than most of my sexual encounters.Here are the ingredients for a good kiss by our analyst take your time and read between the lines:

1. Freshen Up

It’s common sense, but too many people are guilty of having bad breath. Bad breath can happen to you! Practice self-awareness and make sure you keep your teeth clean and your breath fresh. It doesn’t matter how good a kisser you are, bad breath will ruin everything.

2. Be Spontaneous

Catching someone off guard with a kiss can be a wonderful thing. Give them a little gift when they least expect it.

3. Work Your Eyes

When you’re leaning in for a kiss, you can’t use your mouth to speak, so why not say something with eye contact? But, I make sure to close my eyes during the actual kiss because it’s a little creepy when one of us has our eyes open, and it can be distracting. They say that blind people’s senses other than sight are enhanced. Temporary blindness during a kiss may intensify the way a kiss feels, the sound of another person’s breathing, or the touch of their hand.

4. Don’t Try to Control It, Let It Control You

A good kiss is powerful, so you should just let it grip you and go with it.

5. Sit Back and Relax

Kissing is a team effort. Don’t squelch someone’s spirit by going on the offensive or taking control. Feel each other’s tendencies out, and go from there.

6. Mind Your Tongue

Tongue use can be great, or horrible. Remember, it’s a kiss, not a facial wash. No one likes to be attacked by a tongue, or have their entire mouth filled by someone’s tongue. But a tongue used well can make a kiss great.

7. Control Your Saliva

Make sure, like your tongue, you control your saliva. Don’t create river of slobber down your chins.

8. Use Your Hands

Don’t get fixated on someone’s face. Touching their neck or sides, or just holding them close during a kiss makes it even better.